Convoys Unloading

[Pascal_slith]

Perhaps because they are threatened there is something to change in the 'Set TF Routing' screen?  When my units are threatened and I want them to Get out of Dodge, I usually set the waypoints myself and click on 'Direct' for the routing they should take...

[Mike Solli]

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

ORIGINAL: herwin

Diane sold her old Jaguar and I sold my old Dodge when we got married. We bought a new Austin America--known in the trade as the 'gumdrop'. It was designed after the brain drain had reached its peak. Required a new transmission every 14000 miles. The points were glued on the rotor, and the glue melted if you drove up to the top of Mount Wilson.

You SOLD an old Jaguar? (Cries.)

Your Austin reminds me of the low point of US car logic I experienced second-hand. High school GF drove her parents' 1974 Chevy Vega. Had an aluminum block WITH PORES in the metal. I never saw a solid metal sponge before or after. It was 16-months old and looked, inside and out, ten years. OTOH, the 1988 Honda Accord I bought new and took care of I drove until 2005, when I sold it to a friend, who drives it daily even now. I vist Jasper once in awhile and he remembers me.

My first car was a 74 Vega that I got in 1978. I used to carry around a couple of gallon jugs of oil in the trunk. Every time I stopped, I'd pour oil in the engine. I never bothered to measure it. I had that damn car for 4 years.

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: vettim89


sigh. Those of us that live in the norht can only look on with envy. Up here with the cold winter wind blows and the salt flies, car bodies die long before the drive trains

Jasper was bought in CT, moved to NC, and then to MN in 1997. Only spent one NC winter outdoors, none in winter country, and he's running great with no rust.

He was also manufactured in Marysville, OH, not Japan. We can build good cars here. (I don't see a lot of 1988 Big Three anythings still running around though.)

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: The Gnome

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

Some forumites might prefer a chromed-up, slick, ultra-modern game code base. I prefer to think of AE as that hot British sports car with the bad wiring you loved in the 1970s. (Except the hot girl in the passenger seat is MS-DOS.)

I normally agree with you 100% Moose, but here I can't go along. I don't see why having an deep game like AE is mutually exclusive of a modern, efficient, and intuitive UI. I know people loath when there is any criticism of our beloved AE, and yes I realize that AE was largely a volunteer effort - kudos to those guys, they did a magnificent job. I just hope in future versions the UI is given some TLC, it is needed ESPECIALLY for deep, complex games.

(Thread drift ahoy!)

I agree with you. AE was never intended to be anything but a sprucing-up of WITP, which was a core design firmly embedded in the DOS days of game design. It is a wonderful effort, and has taken WITP's design ethos as far as it can go.

I hope the sales success, and the volume of traffic on this forum, can convince Matrix to undertake a true WITP2, possibly with some innovative financing (joint venture?) to spread the risk, and that game starts with bare metal design-wise. In particular I think some other games, such as the Civilization series, can offer clues on how to present complex data in different forms using color, icons, dynamic sorts, player-designed macros, as well as classic spreadsheets. A game which builds on the Windows interface rather than fights it.

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli


[My first car was a 74 Vega that I got in 1978. I used to carry around a couple of gallon jugs of oil in the trunk. Every time I stopped, I'd pour oil in the engine. I never bothered to measure it. I had that damn car for 4 years.

"That damn car" is just the sort of memory you want of your first.[:)]

My first was a 1969 Ford LTD, green with a black vinyl roof, 390 V-8. I bought it for $900 in 1975, and sold it a year to the day for $900. Gas had gone from $.32/gal to $.50/gal and I was dating a girl who lived 10 miles out in the country. So a date was 40 miles plus the date milage, and I was making $1.90/hr as a busboy. Despite the glorious bench seat in the back (kids today have no idea), and that big growling engine, I sold it and bought a $400 VW Bug. No heater, no radio, no seatbelts, no brakes--I learned to downshift in that car. But I could afford the gas.

Good times.

[Mike Solli]

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58
Despite the glorious bench seat in the back (kids today have no idea)

Good times.

[:D]

[Mistmatz]

ORIGINAL: herwin

ORIGINAL: Mistmatz

It seems to work for me in similar situations.

I cancel loading/unloading, undock and set a new target to sail to (within remaining fuel range). Maybe the undocking makes a difference?

All were already undocked.

Have you made sure it's not under computer control or in CS mode?

[herwin]

ORIGINAL: Mistmatz

ORIGINAL: herwin

ORIGINAL: Mistmatz

It seems to work for me in similar situations.

I cancel loading/unloading, undock and set a new target to sail to (within remaining fuel range). Maybe the undocking makes a difference?

All were already undocked.

Have you made sure it's not under computer control or in CS mode?

Oh, yes...

See tech support for the outcome, although we still don't know what happened. See the AAR for what happened then.

[RevRick]

ORIGINAL: herwin

ORIGINAL: Mistmatz

ORIGINAL: herwin




All were already undocked.

Have you made sure it's not under computer control or in CS mode?

Oh, yes...

See tech support for the outcome, although we still don't know what happened. See the AAR for what happened then.

Henry... when that happens to me it's usually because my Kapt. Klutz rules and I forget to take them off of "Remain on Station." I can change everything else, and the boogers will sit there and soak up water through the torpedo holes like a sieve.

[RevRick]

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

ORIGINAL: herwin

Diane sold her old Jaguar and I sold my old Dodge when we got married. We bought a new Austin America--known in the trade as the 'gumdrop'. It was designed after the brain drain had reached its peak. Required a new transmission every 14000 miles. The points were glued on the rotor, and the glue melted if you drove up to the top of Mount Wilson.

You SOLD an old Jaguar? (Cries.)

Your Austin reminds me of the low point of US car logic I experienced second-hand. High school GF drove her parents' 1974 Chevy Vega. Had an aluminum block WITH PORES in the metal. I never saw a solid metal sponge before or after. It was 16-months old and looked, inside and out, ten years. OTOH, the 1988 Honda Accord I bought new and took care of I drove until 2005, when I sold it to a friend, who drives it daily even now. I vist Jasper once in awhile and he remembers me.

My first car was a 74 Vega that I got in 1978. I used to carry around a couple of gallon jugs of oil in the trunk. Every time I stopped, I'd pour oil in the engine. I never bothered to measure it. I had that damn car for 4 years.

I bought one, too. After the requisite 15,000 miles, it magically transformed into a two stroke engine, except it had a magic case to put the oil in. And you didn't need to live up North to have rust problems. If a leaf fell on it and scratched the paint, it would start rusting. I traded it in on a Nova with a Z28 engine under the hood in 18 months. Big difference.